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Tom Tancredo: I think that this crisis is not only an economic crisis. I think that it threatens the very idea of America. There are…

On the recordApril 1, 2007
I think that this crisis is not only an economic crisis. I think that it threatens the very idea of America. There are -- the great tradition of the melting pot in America, it's not working. The melting pot is cracked.
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Tom Tancredo
Colorado

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Tom Tancredo expresses concern that the current immigration crisis threatens the foundational idea of America.

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